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Text description provided by the architects. There are a few weekend-houses around this residence in Karuizawa where the area is well known, as a summer resort in Japan. People loving Karuizawa enjoy each lives in the summer season, and also severely cold winter.

We try to create the comfortable place in the sunshine filtering through foliage and the stillness with the least touches and alterations. I thought what to do for living together with nature, is to make the comfortable atmosphere that seemed to be in the womb of mother.

This site is on the gentle south slope, and therefore taking a step forward on the floor, approach the trees, and at the same time, depart from the ground. Thus the distance with the trees and the ground is decided by the horizontal position.

Based on such features, then various spaces that seem to be in a forest, were designed with the layers of the large opening sections and open spaces by incorporating " MURA=the irregularity" of the spaces intentionally.........(bright & dark, high & low, open & close, wide & narrow, far & near.........)